Centuries Quote by Richard Engel Download Open image “Damascus was the seat of the Ummayad Caliphate in the 7th and 8th centuries.” — Richard Engel ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.7 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Centuries Seat
Iraq was home of the Abbasid Caliphate, a golden age when the Muslim world was at the forefront of math, science and medicine. — Richard Engel Copy Share Image
“Damascus, is simply an oasis, that is what it is. For four thousand years its waters have not gone dry or its fertility failed.… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“Muhammad’s violent end years and final violent words were quickly followed by those who succeeded him in power, after his death in 632 AD.… — John Price Copy Share Image
“The inscription of King Mar'alqais , found south of Damascus and dated at 328 CE, is usually said to be the first document in Arabic.” — Angel Sáenz-Badillos Copy Share Image
In one way, I fear all Damascus is a dungeon. Or do you have to live here to appreciate that? — Robert Fisk Copy Share Image
It's great if someone has a road-to-Damascus experience, but I think that deep and lasting faith is a lifetime project, and includes a lot… — Charles Murray Copy Share Image
The Koran was revealed at a time of great change in the Arab world, the seventh-century shift from a matriarchal nomadic culture to an… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
There were a hundred booksellers in the old round city founded by the eighth-century caliph al-Mansur. The café and wine-drinking culture of Baghdad has… — Annia Ciezadlo Copy Share Image
“Middle East by the Arab Muslim caliphate, ending with Muslim fragmentation and the Iranian Buyid capture of Abbasid Baghdad, saw Muslim and Maronite establishment… — William W. Harris Copy Share Image
The Syrian border town of Qa'im was the main gateway Islamic radicals used to go to Iraq. Syria became the passageway for extremists from… — Richard Engel Copy Share Image
The Syrians are better suited to sort out their internal divisions than anyone else. — Richard Engel Copy Share Image
Osama Bin Laden is dead. Killed not by a massive troop deployment but by a commando raid carried out by a few dozen highly… — Richard Engel Copy Share Image
Anyone who follows the Middle East and Islamic world in general can't deny it is often a very violent place, that a band of… — Richard Engel Copy Share Image
An Egyptian newspaper once publicly identified me as the C.I.A. station chief in Cairo. It seemed so stupid at the time. I was only… — Richard Engel Copy Share Image
Israel is becoming a fortress. Fences along the borders with Egypt, Lebanon, and Syria. — Richard Engel Copy Share Image
Every country where the the United States maintains troops has a status of forces agreement. — Richard Engel Copy Share Image
There are many Israelis who are not keen on Barack Obama - they did not want to see him elected. — Richard Engel Copy Share Image
If you're in part of rebel-controlled Syria, and suddenly your house blows up or a building next to you blows up, it would be… — Richard Engel Copy Share Image
Every child is taught if you try to please everyone, you end up upsetting everyone. — Richard Engel Copy Share Image
There weren't many weapons in Egypt in the 1990s. Police controls on guns were very strict back then. That is no longer the case… — Richard Engel Copy Share Image
Bin Laden is dead, and most of his friends are dead. But did it need to cost a trillion dollars and two land wars,… — Richard Engel Copy Share Image
Iranians hate Arabs. They're a fairly well-educated population and they have centuries of experience with self-government. — Michael Ledeen Copy Share Image
“Time overlaps itself. A breath breathed from a passing breeze is not the whole wind, neither is it just the last of what has… — Ken Kesey Copy Share Image
The institution of marriage, if you look at it over many centuries, has come and gone. — Theodore Zeldin Copy Share Image
A catechism is simply a tool for teaching the fundamentals of the faith. Unlike a creed or confession, a catechism uses questions and answers.… — Kevin DeYoung Copy Share Image
The web of time - the strands of which approach one another, bifurcate, intersect, or ignore each other through the centuries - embraces "every"… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
These movies belonged to the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries that period of great, unsustainable, and hedonistic prosperity, driven by the burning of Earth's… — Robert Charles Wilson Copy Share Image
“love was an unstable reaction with a half-life of about eight months. Bullshit, I said, and accused him of wearing cultural blinders; thirty centuries… — Joe Haldeman Copy Share Image
My only market analysis was to look around and see that, in one way or another, most watches are inspired by watches that were… — Richard Mille Copy Share Image
For it is the dawn that has come, as it has come for a thousand centuries, never failing. — Alan Paton Copy Share Image
If the truth be told, we are a society that is dripping in racism. This is not in the least surprising. For the best… — Martin Jacques Copy Share Image
